Hosiery press



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HOS IERY PRES S Filed July 8, 1926 3 Sheets-Sheet l :NvEmoR 30151? f yamwmfa BY J A ril 29, 1930.

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3 Sheets-Sheet I5 BASIL J. YANGHENKO, or rm, me, or SYRACUSE, NEW YO Patented Apr. 29, 1930 UNITED STATES P AT HOSIEBY PRESS Application filed July 8, 1926. Serial No. 121,160.

This invention relates to pressing machines and more particularly to hosiery presses and other knit goods presses where the work should be first mounted on a form and then dried or pressed.

mg means for moving the forms in and out.

A main object of the invention is to produce a new type of hosiery press improved in respect to the knit goods, garment, or hosiery forms and improved in respect to the conveyof the press jaws.

Furthermore, it is the purpose of this invention. among other things, to improve the general construction of the press operating means, i. e. the jaw opening and closing means and other parts.

Certain changes in construction, arrangement and mode of operation may be resorted to without departing from the principle of the invention and the accompanying drawings illustrate an example of the invention wherein: V

Figure 1 shows a vertical cross section of the press as taken on the line 11 of Figure 7 and Figure 2 shows an end elevation of the press.

Figure 3 showsa front elevation of the ma chine.

Figure 4 shows a detail of one of the garment forms attached to a carrier by which the form is caused to pivot down in front of the operator that he may remove and replace work thereon.

Figure 5 illustrates an enlarged cross section of the carrier on which the garment forms are mounted and illustrates a slotted guide hood adapted to guide the hosiery forms into and out of the press jaws.

Figure 6 illustrates a longitudinal cross section through the gear rack hosiery form carrier and driving pinion.

Figure 7 illustrates a general plan view of the machine.

Figure 8 shows a plan view of the slotted guide member removed from the machine to better understand its exemplary form of construction.

Referring now more particularly to the drawings, there is illustrated a ress frame 10 carrying a table 11 anda pair 0 --verticalpress::

levers 12 are pivoted at 13 in the frame with one end thereof reaching up above the table and supporting the press jaws 14. The press j aws14 may to advantage be pivoted at 15 on the upper end of the press lever thus affording equalizing means to permit the vertical pressing faces or planes of the jaws to even up and uniformly come together on the work. Adj ustment springs 16 may be interposed between the lower edge of each press jaw 14 and press lever 12 for the purpose of yieldingly standing the jaws 14 in vertical position, and a screw 17 is used to adjust the pressing members or jaws 14 into vertical parallel alignment.

The lower end of the press levers 12 are connected to appropriate press driving or operating means as for example a motor or to foot operated device as shown. For this purpose a toggle, comprising links 19 and 20, has its outer end connected to each press lever 12 and a link 21 connects the toggle 19-2O to a power pedal 22 which is pivotally mounted at 23 on the frame. By depressing the pedal 22, the toggle 19-20 is thrust upwardly and moved into overstraightened locked pressing position as shown in Figure 2 thus closingthe press under aw compression.

Press opening and toggle breaking means are provided by an opening or kick-01f pedal 25 placed alongside the power pedal22. The. pedal 25 is pivoted at 26 on the frame and iv otally connected at 27 to the link 21. ft is well to make the pivot pin 27 common to the link 21 and both edals 22 and 25 to simplify construction. ith the press closed as shown in Figure 2, it follows that the opening pedal .25 is up and so by depressing it, the straightened toggle 19-20 is broken down to press open position Figure 1.

A description will now be given of the garment forms and the conveying or carrying means therefor. The table and frame are made. with gear rack channel 29 in which a carrier, as for example, a gear rack 30 is retained and a bearing plate 31 is secured to the table over the channel and is itself longitudinally slotted. A drive pinion 32 is journalled in the frame 10 and engages the gear rack and drives itz ba-cka and-fortha shaft 46'fzis fixed to the pinion 32 and a crank or handle 45 is carried on the outer end to the shaft'to enable the operator to work the conveyor or carrier rack 30.

A mounting bracket 34 is secured to the upper face of the gear rack and projects upwardly through the slotted bearing plate 31 and a garment form 35 has its lower end pivotally mounted on the bracket 34. Thus the garment form 35 is pivotally carried on the upper face of the gear rack 30. The garment forms shown are for hosiery but others may be used. It is desirable in some cases to mount the hosiery or garment forms 35 in a fork 36 the upper end of which receives the lower end of the bearing plate 31. The hood 39 is made with a centrally disposed vertical guide slot 41 made within the hood 39 and is directly beneath or in line with the meeting faces of the press jaws. At each end of the press jaws, the guide slot 41 turns angularly at 42 and forms a side or leaning guide slot 43. In other words, the

hood 39 is made on each end with a leaning guide slot 43 and a vertical guide slot 41 in the center thereof, the said guide slots formingone continuous guide 0 ening. The end slots 43 permit the hosiery orms to lean downwardly toward the operator under their own weight so as to be more accessible to remove the pressed work and re lace thereon unpressed work. The center guide slot 41 causes the hosiery forms to return to a. vertical position so as to stand in ressing position between the jaws. The gui e slot turning points 42 causes the hosiery forms to alter their position when leaving or approaching the press jaws.

The side elevation Figure 3 shows a plurality of hosiery forms 35 with stockings mounted thereon. Half of the forms are in the jaws undergoing steam pressing treatment while the other half of the forms are outside of the jaws in leaning position ready to have the pressed and completed work removed therefrom and having new unpressed work placed thereon. Observing Figure 3, the operator will next rotatethe crank 45 so as to run the pressed Work out to the right of the jaws which simultaneously conveys the unpressed work at the left into the press jaws. herefore while the operator is removing and replacing work on the forms, another batch of work is undergoing treatment in the press.

The guide slot in the hood 39 lets the work down into a convenient working position as each hosiery form runs out of the press, and as the forms travel back into the press the curved guide slot portion 42 automatically lifts the garment forms up into the vertical positi so they may pass between the press jaw. It is to be noted that the hood also cov ers up the rack and pinion transmission thereby concealing these parts from likely contact with any of the work. Furthermore the hood arches at 39 over the bracket and'fork ivot 37 so that the guide slot in the hood is re atively close to this pivot so that the outer ends of the garment forms swing rapidly up and down as passage. In this way the work forms 35 are quickly lowered to a loading and unloading position in front of the press operator and alsothey reach the curved part 42 of the guide of the jaws, a carrier movable in the guide slot, garment forms mounted on the carrier and projecting up through the slot and supported in pressing position thereby, means to move the carrier, and operating means to open and close the press jaws.

2. A press as defined in claim 1 but characterized therefrom by, a guide member provided over the table slot, and said member itself being provided with a guide slot.

3. A press as defined in claim 1 wherein said means to move the carrier comprises, gear teeth on the carrier to form a gear rack, a gear journaled in the frame engaging the gear rack, and means to turn the gear.

4. A press comprising in combination, c0- operating press jaws, operating means to open and close the jaws, an elongated guidememher with a passage therein formed, garment forms retained in the passage and guided in and out of the press jaws, a carrier beneath the guide passage on which the garment forms are mounted, and means to run the carrler.

5. A press comprising in combination, cooperating press aws, operating means to open and close the jaws, an elongated guide member with a passage therein formed, garment forms retained in the passage and guided in and out of the press jaws, a gear rack slidably retained under the guide passage and the aforesaid garment forms being attached 15;:-

thereto, a pinion engaging the gear rack, and a manually operable means to rotate the pin- 1011.

6. A press comprising in combination, press jaws, operating means to open and close the jaws, a plurality of garment forms upstanding between the press jaws, a gear rack slidable beneath the press jaws and the lower ends of the forms pivotally secured to the gear rack, a pinion adapted to drive the rack to i carry the garment forms in and out of the press jaws, means covering over the gear rack and pinion, and means causing the garment forms to lean down toward the operator when out of the press jaws and return to vertical position when approaching the press aws.

7 A press comprising in combination, press jaws, operating means to open and close the jaws, 'a' plurality of garment forms upstanding between the press jaws, a gear rack slidable beneath the press jaws and the lower ends of the forms pivotally secured to the gear rack, a pinion adapted to drive the rack to carry the garment forms in and out of the press jaws, a cover plate concealing the rack and inion, and said cover plate made with a guide passage therein located above the pivot of the garment forms with said forms disposed in the passage.

8. A press comprising in combination, press jaws, operating means to 'open and close the jaws, a plurality of garment forms upstanding between the press jaws, a gear rack slidable beneath the press jaws and the lower ends of the forms pivotally secured to the gear rack, a pinion adapted to drive the rack to carry the garment forms in and out of the press jaws, a cover plate concealing the rack and pinion, said cover plate being provided centrally thereof with a vertically disposed guide passage in which the forms are retained, and said vertical guide passage located directly beneath the press jaws and said passage curved at each end of the aws and reaching outwardly from the jaws in the form of a leanin passage, and the aforesaid garment forms disposed in the guide passage.

9. A press comprising in combination, press jaws, operating means to open and close the press jaws, garment forms disposed between the jaws, a transmission to which the garment forms are pivotally attached, an arched elongated cover hood disposed over the transmission, said hood being provided with a guide passage therein out through which the forms project from the transmission, and said passage being curved in respect to the desired course of travel of the forms.

10. A press comprising in combination,

a frame, vertically mounted press jaws mounted on the frame, a pair of spaced press levers pivoted in the frame with their upper ends respectively attached to the press jaws, a toggle having its ends pivotally connected to the lower spaced ends of the press levers, a pedal pivoted in the frame intermediate of its ends, a connection made between the toggle and end of the pedal by which the press is locked under compression by depressing the pedal, and a kick-ofi' pedal pivoted at its rear end on the frame, and a connection made between the toggle and pedal intermediate the pedal ends.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

BASIL J. .YANCHENKO. 

